Keep a close mouth, both of you." "Husband, what are you going to do ?" Michu, who was carefully measuring a charge of powder, poured it into the barrel of his gun, rested the weapon against the parapet and said to Marthe:-- "No one knows I own that gun.

Stand in front of it." Couraut, who had sprung to his feet, was barking furiously.
"Good, intelligent fellow!" cried Michu.

"I am certain there are spies about--" Man and beast feel a spy.

Couraut and Michu, who seemed to have one and the same soul, lived together as the Arab and his horse in the desert.
The bailiff knew the modulations of the dog's voice, just as the dog read his master's meaning in his eyes, or felt it exhaling in the air from his body.
"What do you say to that ?" said Michu, in a low voice, calling his wife's attention to two strangers who appeared in a by-path making for the _rond-point_.
"What can it mean ?" cried the old mother.

"They are Parisians." "Here they come!" said Michu.